> Am 05.09.2021 um 14:40 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com>: > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 4:10 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> >> On 05/09/2021 09:19, Peter Boy wrote: >>> Much to my chagrin, you describe the biggest problem in Fedora for years >>> and the one why Fedora is falling further and further behind among >>> distributions. The problem overshadows all that many positive features that >>> otherwise distinguish Fedora. >> >> SELinux has saved Fedora users from many critical vulnerabilities (eg. >> telnetd RCE CVE last year). This is a last line of defense. > > You're referring to CVE-2020-10188? Who that is sane runs telnetd > these days, or lets it past their firewalls? It's an unencrypted > protocol vulnerable to packet sniffing. I'm afraid it's a poor example > of the benefits of SELinux: if you're running telnetd, you generally > have *much* bigger problems.
You are right, it’s a poor example. But I suppose you agree that the underlying argument is nevertheless valid. SELinux increases security. And the issues and problems that Sam Varshavchik described should be resolved. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
